User:WilyD/William Case/Enoch Burdock
Enoch Burdock was a Methodist circuit rider.
After marrying, Burdock settled in Oxford Township, Upper Canada, near Ingersoll. His wife converted to Methodist while they lived there, in 1801, after Nathan Bangs preached there. Burdock became irritated with the constant prostelysation he faced, writing to Bangs demanding his wife's name be taken off the society's rolls. Bangs refused, returnin the letter with the note "Prepare to meet thy God, O Sinner!"[1] Burdock soon came around to the Methodists, and not long after this began working as a local preacher. In 1811, he took up the task of circuit riding, and was assigned to the Ancaster and Long Point Circuit, where he worked alongside George Washington Densmore.[2] Burdock was reassigned to the Ancaster and Long Point Circuit, with Peter Covenhoven.[3]
Records of Burdock's assignments during the War of 1812 were either not kept, or were lost at some point. Ezra Adams' diary records him as living in Oxford in 1814, possible either working as a local preacher or a circuit rider. Following the war, Burdock moved to Buffalo, New York, where he had family.[4] Burdock did return to Canada in 1820, as an itinernat preacher.[5]
- ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 254.
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 255
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 259
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 267
- ^ Carroll, volume I, page 268